Senior Scientist I, Automation Technologies (Pekin,IL) - (Pekin, IL)

Process Research and Development (PRD) develops processes and prepares active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to enable clinical trials, toxicology studies and drug product development for AbbVie's pre-clinical and clinical drug pipeline. Researchers in AbbVie's R&D work in multi-functional teams to develop scalable processes and supply API for safety testing, clinical trials and formulation development. To achieve this goal, Process R&D researchers use a variety of automation techniques to expedite process development which include: High throughput experimentation for screening and process parameter mapping Medium throughput experimentation and automated laboratory reactors to expedite process optimization and enhance process understanding Custom automation to maximize opportunities for greater experimental efficiency and to enable development of continuous and flow processes. Job summary: